I don't know how long I ran in the rain, but when I finally reached the city gate, the gate was still closed, and a few peasants who were sitting on business were dragging wooden carts full of fruit, trying to drag them into the city.

The soldiers stationed at the gate were trying to help him push there, and when I saw this, I naturally ran out quickly, and while the soldiers were busy helping the old peasant who was about to leave the city gate, I took advantage of the situation and ran towards the city gate with my skirt in my hand.

But before I could get out of the gates, I heard the shouts of soldiers behind me, and he said behind me: "It's dangerous outside the city now!" Can't go out for the time being! ”

I didn't run back, and the soldier wanted to chase me back, but the rain was so strong that he saw the menacing water flowing into the inner gate, and after thinking about it, he didn't dare to come again, so he could only stop and stand there.

At first, I didn't notice how fierce the water outside the city was, and the process of escaping was too tense to pay attention to anything else, but when I escaped and calmed down, I looked up, and then I found that the situation outside the city was terrible, and there were pictures of heavy rain breaking down the trees everywhere, and there were two big trees floating from nowhere on the road outside the city gate, and the water was full of branches blown down by the wind.

The water in the distance is even worse, and it is easy to be pushed away by the current.

I stood there, I looked back, then forward, and it was clear that I had no way out.

When it was ten o'clock in the evening, I was forced to stay in a small hotel in Shengzhou, and I was already soaking wet, shivering at the counter of the small hotel.

The proprietress glanced at me, and saw that I was embarrassed like a chicken that had just been fished out of the water, so she asked me a word in Shengzhou dialect, I didn't understand, she seemed to see it, so she asked: "You are not from Shengzhou?" ”

Finally, she began to speak Jinling to me, and my voice was full of tiredness: "I am from Jinling." ”

"No wonder, it's not like a local," she said. ”

She wrote something in the ledger, and asked as she wrote: "Don't you know that the situation in Shengzhou is more dangerous than Jinling now?" In this great flood, I didn't wait for a good safe place, and I even ran here desperately. ”

I didn't expect her to talk so much, so I said, "I want to stay in the hotel." ”

The proprietress stopped her pen and looked at me and said, "I naturally know that you want to stay in the hotel, but the first floor is now full of water, the second floor is full, the third floor is also full of people, but there is a small utility room on the second floor, there is a small bed in it, do you want it?" ”

I replied weakly: "Yes." Word.

She seemed to be afraid that I would have no money, so she raised her finger at me and said, "An ocean." ”

I flipped through my body and flipped it over, but I really forgot that I didn't have any money with me, so I could only reach out and touch my head indiscriminately, then pull a hairpin from my hair, hand it to her, and say, "Is it enough?" ”

She picked it up, looked at it over and over again, and then smiled and said, "That's enough." ”

She took a bunch of keys from the drawer and led me upstairs, and I followed her, the water on the first floor almost knee-high.

The proprietress said: "I heard that Shengzhou is now a vast ocean, I advise you not to go out before the flood recedes, many people have drowned on the street, I heard,"

I followed behind her, listened silently, did not speak, and when I reached the second floor, she said: "Seeing that you are from Jinling, I will tell you that you people from Jinling must be rich ladies from the family, where have you ever come to a poor and remote place like Shengzhou." ”

I feel like I only have enough strength to stand up.

She remembered something again, turned back to me and said, "By the way, remember to tell me what you want to eat, I'm not the kind of black-hearted person, your hairpin is enough for you to eat with me for half a month, and live for half a month." ”

She nagged me endlessly, I basically didn't respond, and when she finally stopped at the door of the small utility room with me, I asked the proprietress in a hoarse voice: "How should I get to Jiangzhou County?" ”

When the proprietress heard what I said, she was going to use the key to open the door, but she immediately stopped and looked at me and asked, "Are you going to Jiangzhou County?" ”

I said, "Yes." ”

She said, "Don't go, the roads over there are all closed, and all the people in the village have been moved to the mountains to avoid the floods. ”

She opened the door directly, and said to me: "I advise you, it's better to stay honest, the location of Shengzhou is low, the water potential of Jinling is all flowing to Shengzhou, Jinling may be fine if you go outside and walk around, but Shengzhou is different, this is a real drowning person, if you don't believe it, now go outside to see, now how many corpses are floating outside on the water." ”

When she said this, she shoved the key into my hand and said, "Go in, I won't be responsible for any accident." ”

After she finished speaking, she glanced at me, and did not linger any longer in the little utility room, and walked downstairs with her skirt full of water.

I stood there looking at her for a long time before I pushed the door open again and walked straight in.

That night I was destined not to go to Jiangzhou County, the rain from that night, from the knee directly to half a person high, I couldn't go downstairs at all, the proprietress had moved all the things in the kitchen downstairs to the upstairs.

The small hotel was crowded with people, the crying of children, the vulgar scolding of adults, and the sound of stir-frying day and night, making this already crowded small hotel more and more crowded.

From that day on, I was stuck in this small hotel, unable to get out.

I huddled in the small utility room, and the first thing I did every morning was to go to the window of the hallway to see the rain outside.

I watched the rain outside for five days, and when I came out again on the morning of the sixth day, I stood there for a moment as I looked at the rain that was still going on, and then without saying a word I passed the lady who lived in the corridor and walked towards the utility room.

When I closed the door, I curled up on the cramped bed, laughed twice, and then reached out to wipe the tears from my face.

There has never been such a flood in Jinling, and there was no warning at all before, but in just a few days, it has developed into such a trend, maybe it is probably destined, even God is preventing me from going to see Kimura for the last time.

I couldn't say anything about the mood, after so much time had passed, I had almost despaired of the idea of going to see Kimura for the last time, so the further back on, I became more and more unconcerned about the rain outside.

Locked himself in that little utility room all day.

I don't know how many days I slept in the dark, but the owner of the little inn couldn't stand it anymore, probably because she was afraid that I would die inside, so she forced me to open the door every day, and threw some food into my house before leaving.

After another four or five days, when the water gradually receded, one day a wading car was parked in front of the small hotel, and everyone was standing upstairs watching.

It is rare to see a car in Shengzhou, and occasionally one or two cars are rare, but today there is a car parked in front of this shabby little hotel, everyone thinks it is incredible, all lying on the upstairs window and talking, pointing downstairs.

At this time, when the proprietress heard this, she quickly rushed downstairs, and at this moment, an extremely elegant man came out of the car, and the man was followed by an entourage, who held an umbrella and followed him inside.

The proprietress knew that the other party's identity was extraordinary at a glance, so she hurriedly walked over and said with an extremely flattering smile: "This master, is it a hotel?" ”

The richly dressed man did not speak, but his attendant said, "No, we are looking for someone." ”

The proprietress muttered and asked, "Looking for someone?" ”

The attendant nodded and said, "In the past few days, you have received a woman in her twenties, who has no money on her, but she likes to use the jewelry on her body as money. ”

When the proprietress saw the attendant ask, she hesitated for a moment, and for a moment she couldn't tell whether they were good or bad.

At this time, the man who was richly dressed and had an elegant temperament spoke: "I am her family, and I have come out to look for her." ”

The voice is pleasant and gentle, and the tone is not a little arrogant in line with his clothes, which is very good, and the other party seems to be still sick, and his face is not very ruddy.

The proprietress immediately let down her guard, she hurriedly took out a hairpin from the drawer of the cabinet and asked, "Is it this one?" ”

His entourage looked at the man beside him who was behaving elegantly, the man stretched out his white and slender hand, took the hairpin, glanced at the entourage beside him, and walked upstairs.

His attendant gave the lady some money, and quickly followed.

The proprietress was still stunned, but soon, she immediately followed, and when they reached the second floor, the proprietress was afraid that they would not find anyone, so she quickly led them to the utility room.

There were a bunch of onlookers standing in the hallway, and I was standing behind them, and when I saw the two men coming up, I turned around and walked back, but before I could take two steps, the man standing there behind me saw me shuttling through the crowd.

At this moment, he whispered, "Hello." ”

When I heard these two words, my whole body stiffened, and my steps stopped.

Naturally, he was afraid of revealing my identity, so he didn't call me by my real name.

He asked, "Where else do you want to hide?" ”

As soon as he said this, everyone automatically followed his voice and automatically turned their eyes to me, and everyone present looked at me.

For a moment, I stood there and walked away, hidden, and turned back, and then I simply turned around and looked back at him.

And he stood there, looking at me.

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